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[8] [9] Telegram's appeal to the Russian Supreme Court was rejected. [10] In April 2020, the Government of Russia started using the blocked Telegram platform to spread information related to COVID-19 outbreak. On 18 June 2020 Roskomnadzor lifted its ban on Telegram after it 'agrees to help with extremism investigations'. [2] The court ruling ...
Telegram was a key platform for sharing information and coordinating rallies during the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. [3] Telegram was one of few communication platforms available in Belarus during the three days of internet shutdown that followed the day of the presidential election, which Belarus's president Alexander Lukashenko won amid widespread allegations of election fraud. [4]
Fines imposed by Russian courts on Alphabet's Google and YouTube, Meta, TikTok and Telegram appear to have been settled as the companies are no longer registered as debtors in the state bailiffs ...
On 4 August 2016, a Moscow court ruled that LinkedIn must be blocked in Russia because it stores the user data of Russian citizens outside of the country, in violation of the new data retention law. This ban was upheld on 10 November 2016. [51] and the ban was officially issued by Roskomnadzor on 17 November 2016. [52]
The dispute between Russia and Telegram has become something of a saga, but today Telegram was dealt a blow. The messaging service wanted to prevent the Federal Security Service (FSB, the ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian users of Telegram and WhatsApp had trouble accessing the messaging apps on Wednesday due to disruption the state communications monitoring service said was caused by a ...
Pavel Durov is a Russian entrepreneur known for co-founding and being the chief executive officer (CEO) of Telegram messenger, offering end-to-end encryption in messages, voice and video calls. [13] [14] In 2018, Russia attempted to block Telegram, after the company refused to cooperate with Russian security services. [15]
With Telegram pointedly ignoring the order, Moscow blocked the app the following year—or at least, it tried to. A kind-of-hilarious game of whack-a-mole ensued, with Telegram merrily skipping ...